AI Engineer · October 11, 2026

Agent security lab: test platform controls and tool boundaries separately

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Why it matters

Michael Forrester and Whitney Lee use a deliberately permissive Kubernetes assistant to show how tool access can turn a normal request into infrastructure changes or data exposure. The public lab maps failures to admission rules, network policy, runtime controls, and agent-specific filters and permissions. The recording’s publisher notes also describe protections that did not work consistently; a refusal or a deployed policy is not proof of containment.

My takeaway: Reproduce only in an isolated lab with synthetic secrets. Replay the same test before and after each control, inspect tool traces, and distinguish prevented actions from alerts. Verify identity, egress, file access, and tool permissions independently.

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